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Cultural Questions: 1) Name a Time you let your team down.. what happened and how did you respond. 2) Name a time you failed and what were the ramifications to your team. 3) Tell us of a time you mislead a manager or supervisor and why and what were the results. Generally very Negative questions.... I offered to delay and get back to the questions.. she said "I'll wait..."
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Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Interviewed at Freenome

3.2★
Dec 20, 2021

Cultural Questions: 1) Name a Time you let your team down.. what happened and how did you respond. 2) Name a time you failed and what were the ramifications to your team. 3) Tell us of a time you mislead a manager or supervisor and why and what were the results. Generally very Negative questions.... I offered to delay and get back to the questions.. she said "I'll wait..."

Beside the basic Ruby questions, there was: how can you call a public method without using class dot notation, describe the 3 mixin methods, is meta-programming good for production, what are (Postgres) transactions and what types of joins are there, and why would the Having clause be used?
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at ShipHawk

4.2★
Feb 25, 2022

Beside the basic Ruby questions, there was: how can you call a public method without using class dot notation, describe the 3 mixin methods, is meta-programming good for production, what are (Postgres) transactions and what types of joins are there, and why would the Having clause be used?

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